Arts & Entertainment
The latest arts and entertainment highlights, previews, reviews, music and film features and opinion pieces from The Skinny writers.
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ArtSonica 2013: Whispers @ Tramway
The title Whispers suggests a calmness and quietness that is to be found in Rob van Rijswijk and Jeroen Strijbos' sculptural installation at Sonica. The soun... Read more »| 06 Dec 2013 -
MusicThe Albums of 2013 (#3): Factory Floor – Factory Floor (DFA)
Combining industrial noise, stripped techno and disco and driving analogue synth-sounds in their incendiary live performances, this year Factory Floor nailed their first studio album. The band's Nik Void talks tactics Read more »| 06 Dec 2013 -
Theatre
Limbo @ St Andrew's Square
With a multi-talented cast of nine performers, Limbo is a circus performance that fascinates, titillates, and leaves you wondering 'How did they do that?' Fr... Read more »| 06 Dec 2013 -
ComedyEsoteric Christmas Gift Guide 2013
I’m joined by my colleague Dr. Darren Icke for the return of our Esoteric Xmas Product Guide, this year brought to you by our colossal friends at OMNICORP®, who are about to release a new anti-ageing cream we’ve been literally wetting the bed about Read more »| 06 Dec 2013 -
Music
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture Roundup | 6 December
Spotify explains its new deal for artists; the science of Daft Punk's helmets; a live Nine Inch Nails concert; new music from LuckyMe, Nick Cave, Jon Hopkins, David Bowie, Factory Floor, Com Truise and Devendra Banhart, and much more Read more »| 06 Dec 2013 -
Books
R.I.P. Nelson Mandela: The World Reacts
Nelson Mandela, the former South African President and civil rights campaigner who led South Africa out of the apartheid era, passed away last night after an... Read more »| 06 Dec 2013
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Clubs
The Spirit of '94: Pi-Eyed NYE Meltdown
Intent on keeping the free party scene alive, the founders of Pi-Eyed promise a Hogmanay bash featuring ravers, pipers and some of the most ludicrous DJ names you're ever likely to see on one flyer Read more »| 06 Dec 2013 -
TheatrePanto Limbo: Alternative Christmas Theatre in the Northwest
It's time for Christmas theatre! Oh no it isn't. Oh yes it is Read more »| 06 Dec 2013 -
Film
The Films of 2013: Girl Power
Is this the year women got a fair shake in movies? Our top ten suggests a tentative yes: from Wadjda's pint-sized rebel and Zero Dark Thirty's ferocious CIA agent to Frances Ha's loveable flake, 2013's best films were dominated by great female characters Read more »| 06 Dec 2013 -
Clubs
Hic Hic! Hooray: NYE in Liverpool and Manchester
Where to head in Liverpool and Manchester to avoid breaking the bank, your resolve and your long-standing relationships Read more »| 06 Dec 2013 -
Music
The Albums of 2013 (#4): The National – Trouble Will Find Me (4AD)
When his wife Joy Davidson died after three years of marriage, C.S. Lewis recorded his grief in a series of journals, published pseudonymously in the early 1... Read more »| 05 Dec 2013 -
Music
Casual Sex / Halfrican @ Nice N Sleazy, 22 November
The urgency of Halfrican’s surf-punk sound is in stark contrast to the laidback beachware they wear on stage, despite the Baltic-like conditions o... Read more »| 05 Dec 2013 -
Music
Arctic Monkeys @ The SSE Hydro, 21 November
You can take the boy out of High Green… and, given nearly a decade of writing guitar hits and amassing a crowd big enough to fill Glasgow’s 13,0... Read more »| 05 Dec 2013 -
Music
Janet Weiss reflects on Sleater-Kinney, Wild Flag, and 20 years of Quasi
With Sleater-Kinney still on hiatus, and Wild Flag no more, Janet Weiss explains why playing with Quasi in the here and now remains her day job of choice Read more »| 05 Dec 2013 -
Music
The Albums of 2013 (#5): CHVRCHES – The Bones of What You Believe (Virgin / Goodbye)
“A lot of electronic bands these days, not wanting to name names, they shy away from the melody, shy away from the song and it becomes all about how th... Read more »| 05 Dec 2013